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Apple visionary Steve Jobs
Apple visionary Steve Jobs
died on October 5, 2011 due to pancreatic cancer at age 56. His absence will be felt all the more at the company he co-founded, as well
as by the millions of users who have been drooling over Apple products for nearly two decades.
Steve Jobs health had been a controversial topic for years and a deep concern to Apple fans and investors.
Stve Jobs, a Buddhist, was born in San Francisco. He started
Apple Computer with friend Steve Wozniak in his parents garage in 1976.
Six years ago, Jobs had talked about how a sense of his mortality was a
major driver behind that vision. "Remembering that I'll be dead soon is
the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big
choices in life," Jobs had said during a Stanford commencement ceremony in 2005.
On August 25, 2011, Steve Jobs handed over the
reins of the world's most valuable technology company, Apple Inc, to Tim
Cook. The new CEO unveiled the new iPhone4S just a couple of days back.
Tribute by world leaders
Mark Zuckerberg - Facebook Founder - Steve, thank you for being a mentor and a friend. Thanks for showing that what you
build can change the world. I will miss you. - Mark Zuckerberg -Facebook Founder
Bill Gates - Microsoft Chairman - The world rarely sees someone who has had the profound impact Steve has had... For
those of us lucky enough to get to work with him, it's been an insanely evolves.
Eric Schmidt - Google Executive Chaiman - Jobs
was able in his mind to imagine what would happen when things were
10 times faster or 100 times faster and start to think about how the technology evolves.
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh - in his condolence message, said he was saddened by the demise of Jobs, adding that he
was truly an innovative man and taught us new ways to connect and communicate.
Tata Sons Chairman Ratan Tata acknowledged: "Steve Jobs has been one of the greatest icons of the
modern era. His untimely death is a huge loss to us all.".
HCL Technologies CEO Vineet Nayar - "For me, Steve Jobs was an idea, and not just a person, that will live
on and on and on."
Tata Consultancy Services CEO & MD,N Chandrasekaran -
"No one has shaped the technology revolution like Steve Jobs." |
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Apple Inc.
Apple Inc. was established on April 1, 1976 in Cupertino, California
and incorporated January 3, 1977. The company was previously named Apple Computer,
Inc., for its first 30 years, but removed the word "Computer" on January
9, 2007. As of September 2010, Apple had 46,600 full time employees and 2,800 temporary full time employees
worldwide and had worldwide annual sales of $65.23 billion.
Apple products " Macbooks, iPods, iPhones and iPads
" continue to cast a spell on users who are willing to wait for hours in serpentine queues to
be the first to buy these products. In India, Apple iPhones may have
slightly over 1 per cent marketshare, and only a few thousand iPads are
sold in the country. Yet, Apple and Steve Jobs are almost household
names here. Never has the exit of a global CEO generated such excitement, and seldom has a death been mourned as much. |
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